Gabriela Rennebeck

Gabriela Rennebeck

Gabriela  Rennebeck , Ph.D.

Laboratory Coordinator and Instructor, Biology

Education   Subjects Taught

Ph.D. - Biological Sciences - University of Texas at Austin

M.S. Genetics - Universidade Estadual de Campinas

  

Integrative Biology Labs

Methods for Biological Problem Solving
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Besides teaching and coordinating the first year Biology labs, I'm starting a research project that involves the characterization of quaking gene in zebrafish embryonic development. Quaking is an RNA-binding protein that is highly conserved in humans, frogs, chicken, zebrafish, and flies. Quaking primordial function originated in the mesoderm more specifically in the regulation of cardiac and muscle development. Quaking function evolved in the nervous system, particularly in developing glial progenitors. Biology/Psychology/Neurobiology recently acquired a zebrafish unit system (Aquaneering) to maintain zebrafish wild type and mutant stocks for research and teaching purposes.

I am the Laboratory Coordinator for the Introductory Biology Laboratory Series (BIOL1111 & 1212). BIOL 1111 "Introductory Biology Laboratory" is followed by BIOL 1212 "Methods for Biological Problem Solving" (Spring semester). In BIOL1111 labs, students learn how to communicate in the field of sciences, how to design scientific experiments, how to collect data, how to analyze and present these data in a scientific format. Subsequently, BIOL 1212 provides students with opportunities to learn a variety of skills in basic laboratory techniques and the prospect of performing experiments in different areas of Biology, such as Animal Behavior, Physiology, Molecular Biology and Animal Physiology.


Publications

Wu J.I., Centilli, M.A., Vasquez G., Young S., Scolnick J., Durfee L.A., Spearow J.L., Schwantz S.D., Rennebeck, G. and Artzt, K. (2007). "Tint Maps to Mouse Chromosome 6 and May Interact With a Notochordal Enhancer of Brachyury." Genetics 177:1151.

G. Rennebeck, M. Martelli and N. Kyprianou. (2005). "Anoikis in the tumor microinvironment: is there a role in prostate cancer?" Cancer Research. 65: 11230.

H. Geiger, G. Rennebeck and G. V. Zant. (2005). "Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell aging in vivo by a distinct genetic element." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102: 5102.

J.S. Rawlings JS, G. Rennebeck, S.M. Harrison, R. Xi, D.A. Harrison. (2004). "Two Drosophila suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) differentially regulate JAK and EGFR pathway activities." BMC Cell Biol. 5: 38.

B. Feldman, M.A. Gates, E.S. Egan, S.T. Dougan, G. Rennebeck*, H.I. Sirotkin, A.F. Schier and W.S. Talbot. (1998). "Zebrafish organizer development and germ layer formation require nodal-related signals." Nature 395, 181. * first co-authorship.

G. Rennebeck, E. Kleimanova, R. Anderson, K. Artzt and C. Walker. (1998). "Tuberous sclerosis gene (Tsc-2) is involved in the development of the forebrain in rats." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 15629.

G. Rennebeck, E. Lader, A. Fujimoto, E. Lei and K. Artzt. (1998). "Mouse Brachyury the second (T2) is a gene next to classical T and a candidate for tct." Genetics 150: 1125.

G. Rennebeck, E. Lader, Q. Chen, R. Bohn, S. Cai, C. Faust, T. Magnuson, L. Pease and K.Artzt. (1995). "Is there a Brachyury the second? Analysis of a transgenic mutation involved in notochord maintenance in mice." Dev. Biol. 172: 206 (1995).

Trinity Involvement

I am part of the Biology team assigned to the HHMI Trinity University's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Program.

Contact Information
Department of Biology
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
210-999-8347
grennebe@trinity.edu